Incident Readiness
Build robust cyber incident response frameworks that support minimizing impact and accelerating recovery
Prepare today for tomorrow’s cyber incidents
Cyber attacks strike organizations of every size and industry with alarming regularity and consistency. Your ability to respond effectively in those critical first hours determines whether the incident becomes a footnote or a headline.
BPM’s incident readiness services help you evaluate your current state and develop the capabilities, processes, and resilience needed to respond effectively when security incidents occur.
The strategic advantage of incident readiness
Effective incident readiness delivers significant benefits:
- Minimized potential impact: Organizations with mature incident readiness experience significantly lower costs and business disruption when incidents occur. Our services help you prepare to detect and contain incidents faster, potentially reducing damage and recovery time.
- Regulatory compliance: Many regulations now require formal incident response capabilities and testing. Our services help to ensure your readiness program meets these requirements while delivering practical operational benefits.
- Stakeholder confidence: Demonstrating robust incident preparedness builds confidence among customers, partners, regulators and investors. We help you communicate your readiness effectively to these key stakeholders.
- Improved decision-making: Our readiness services help establish frameworks for making critical decisions under pressure, ensuring your team can act decisively when incidents occur.
Comprehensive incident readiness services
Tabletop Exercises
We design and facilitate realistic scenario-based exercises that test your incident response capabilities in a controlled environment. These exercises challenge your team to work through complex cyber incidents, from ransomware outbreaks to data breaches, revealing existing strengths and improvement opportunities before a real incident occurs. Our facilitators create custom scenarios based on your specific industry threats and guide participants through decision-making processes, communications challenges and response planning activities.
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We help you develop comprehensive strategies to maintain critical operations during security incidents and support effective disaster recovery. Our approach includes business impact analysis to identify critical functions and recovery priorities, recovery strategy development aligned with business objectives, backup system assessment and design recommendations, recovery procedure documentation for various incident scenarios, and testing methodologies to validate recovery capabilities.
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Our incident readiness approach helps to prepare your organization across all critical dimensions:
- Incident response planning: We help you develop comprehensive incident response plans that clearly define roles, responsibilities, and procedures for addressing security incidents. Our planning process helps to ensure alignment with industry frameworks and applicable regulatory requirements while being practical enough to use during high-stress situations.
- Response capability assessment: We evaluate your current incident response capabilities against industry standards and your specific threat landscape, identifying gaps and providing a prioritized roadmap for improvement. Our assessment examines people, training, processes, technologies, and governance to help ensure all aspects of your current capabilities are addressed.
- Technology readiness evaluation: We assess your existing security tools and recommend enhancements to help ensure you have the right technologies in place for effective incident detection and response. Our approach focuses on maximizing the value of your current investments while addressing critical capability gaps.
The BPM approach to incident readiness
Our incident readiness services are delivered by professionals who understand both the technical and business aspects of cyber incidents. We focus on building practical capabilities that will work under the stress of real incidents, not just theoretical frameworks that look good on paper.
We recognize that each organization has unique risks, resources and requirements. Our services are tailored to your specific situation, providing the right level of preparation without unnecessary complexity or cost.
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